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Post by jenny on Sept 5, 2024 18:59:37 GMT
I slept very badly last night, as I have done for the last three nights, dammit, so I went for a swim today to wake myself up.
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Post by amanda on Sept 5, 2024 22:59:23 GMT
My Yahoo email seems to be down which means I can't access any possible last minute requests for the music library this morning.
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 6, 2024 8:14:29 GMT
Still not feeling good. Did manage to take the dog for a brief walk in a short break in the rain just now. At least she's had a poo ahead of Texan s-in-l taking her to the vets. Just heard the car going as I type this.
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 6, 2024 19:34:11 GMT
I knew that Little Brother was away this weekend, but I didn't know any details. Chatting to him earlier I discovered it's a metal detecting weekend in Herts (I think) along with one of our friends. Last time they went off together I has to pick him up from a hospital in Surrey after he fell in the shower and broke his wrist. I'm hoping for an incident-free trip this time!
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 7, 2024 13:09:38 GMT
Little Brother did ring Texan s-in-l this morning, but only to check in and say it was quite misty there.
Actually, if anyone's due for a broken wrist it's our friend. Since Little Brother breaking his wrist when off with him, our friend's wife has broken both of hers falling over at home and slamming into their front door!
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 7, 2024 16:20:29 GMT
There are various little jobs I do on a Sunday, such as a scrub of the steamer pan, a washout out of the veg peelings pot in the kitchen, a thorough wipe of my specs with cleaning fluid, and a few others. I have been doing them today. It just impinged on my feeble brain that today is Saturday.
Don't worry about me. No please.....
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Post by Bondee on Sept 7, 2024 16:39:27 GMT
You got them done today, you can have a day off tomorrow. It is the day of rest, after all.
Every cloud...
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Post by efros on Sept 9, 2024 12:41:45 GMT
I had to take Friday as a sick day due to an arthritis flare up, it abated somewhat on Saturday and then came back full force on Sunday evening to the point where I got roughly 2 hours sleep last night. This morning started at about 1 am, I lay in bed for about 3 hours and finally got up at 4 am to send in my sick notice and my sub plans for the day, I'm currently in a zombie like state on the couch and expect to be like this for the remainder of the day until I can go to bed exhausted in the hope of getting some zeds tonight.
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Post by jenny on Sept 9, 2024 16:30:47 GMT
Oh poor you Efros - that sounds deeply unpleasant and I hope it abates again as soon as possible.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 9, 2024 19:37:03 GMT
To Tunbridge Wells for a play-reading again. Accidental Death of an Anarchist today. Very clever play.
I then went to buy shower gel from the Body Shop. To get there one has to go past Hotel Chocolat. On the way back, I did not go past. I stopped.
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Post by amanda on Sept 9, 2024 21:25:07 GMT
Slightly overslept, woke up at 6.15 am so still time to get out the door by 6.45.
Cat had sprayed the bathroom door and a puddle was under the litter tray...the last thing I wanted to clean up this morning.
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Post by suze on Sept 9, 2024 22:02:18 GMT
Accidental Death of an Anarchist today. Very clever play. Perhaps too clever for me. Even though he never had any serious intention of acting for a living, my first husband majored in Theatre Arts. He appeared in a motley assortment of plays, the better of which were just about watchable. (I was a better actor than him even though I never aspired to anything higher than being in the school play. My one appearance on the university stage - as Lady Scottish Play - played to full houses. His appearances, not so much.)
ADoaA was one of the plays in which he appeared, although it had been moved from Milan to Chicago and had Mayor Daley in it. It struck me as clever theatre for the sake of clever theatre, with little attention paid to whether anyone would actually want to watch it.
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Post by pdr on Sept 9, 2024 23:08:53 GMT
Accidental Death of an Anarchist today. Very clever play. Perhaps too clever for me. Even though he never had any serious intention of acting for a living, my first husband majored in Theatre Arts. He appeared in a motley assortment of plays, the better of which were just about watchable. (I was a better actor than him even though I never aspired to anything higher than being in the school play. My one appearance on the university stage - as Lady Scottish Play - played to full houses. His appearances, not so much.)
ADoaA was one of the plays in which he appeared, although it had been moved from Milan to Chicago and had Mayor Daley in it. It struck me as clever theatre for the sake of clever theatre, with little attention paid to whether anyone would actually want to watch it.
Saw the original West End run as a teenager back in the late 70s. If done well (as it was) it is hilarious. PDR
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Post by Bondee on Sept 10, 2024 11:19:49 GMT
Had trouble getting out of bed because my back was screaming at me. Everything's gone downhill since.
Today may have to be an enforced CBB day.
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Post by efros on Sept 11, 2024 14:37:30 GMT
6:45 am my short commute to school was nearly terminated about 60 yards from home when a deer in a mad dash, leapt from the lawn at the local variety store into the road. Fortunately she swerved before colliding with our car, she would definitely have come off worst in that collision, and scraped by our rear and safely made it across the road. A little excitement to kick off the day.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 11, 2024 15:01:16 GMT
We went up to that there London yesterday afternoon for the latest signing of a new book by Jodj Taylor, The Ballad of Smallhpe and Pennyroyal. This was again at Battersea Power Station. Good to meet up with various chums of the St Mary's gang. A reading of an extract of the book by Jodi was greatly enjoyed, and a lovely Q&A session. I asked her if there was anything in history that she would go back and change if she could and bugger the consequences. After some thought she plumped for the Battl of Hastings. How things would have been different. One of her fans is Reception manager at a hotel on Lancaster Gate, and she had had got us a room at a reduced rate. So we had a cider in a pub near the hotel, then a couple more in the bar. Vèry civilised A slow start to the morning, a gentle stroll along yo Marble Arch which is currently under a huge condom, ageing some restoration done. Then into the Tube, train from Charing X, and home after almost exactly 24 hours.
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Post by jenny on Sept 11, 2024 15:07:13 GMT
Oh you lucky bugger tets - I would have loved to be there for that. I am very much looking forward to the new book, and have it on pre-order on my Kindle.
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Post by amanda on Sept 12, 2024 9:40:27 GMT
Slight drama at school today, with a boy having walked out yesterday afternoon and not returning the library laptop again. He arrived at 9am and I asked him about yesterday's laptop 'it might be in my locker'. ok, I say, 'could you get it as it might need charging'. (laptop trolleys are all plugged in each night)
He hadn't returned by 9.10 and after yesterday's news, I did a report about it. Then I see a note from another teacher about how class had barely begun when he had asked to go to the counselling office (next to the library, kids often wait in the library)
He finally came back and said he couldn't find the laptop. So a colleague suggested I send out a group email. Another teacher who has this boy for home room replied, saying each morning he was rough with the laptop, or picked up the one from the day before that hadn't been returned....all this, made me implement a ban from borrowing a laptop for the next week, till the end of the term.
And then all four laptop trolleys were out, all laptops out so I did an online announcement to the students to say that no more were available (unless a couple were returned) There is at least one other possibly (hopefully) in a locker, of another boy who is a regular absconder and on/off attendee.
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Post by jenny on Sept 12, 2024 20:03:38 GMT
Nice day here today. My friend and I went to L L Bean in Freeport for her to buy some socks, and then to Brunswick for a good Japanese lunch at a restaurant we often go to. Then a trip to Goodwill where she bought a couple of new shirts for her husband (surprising how often new or almost new clothes end up in Goodwill) and we visited the art museum at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Very pleasant and satisfying day.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 13, 2024 7:44:18 GMT
I think I might've caught Cel's grot.
Woke up with a fuzzy head and a cough, and my nose is doing an impression of a waterfall.
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Post by amanda on Sept 13, 2024 10:01:37 GMT
That waterfall comment is why I hate chronic sniffers - don't they realise that gravity etc - it just drips down again?
The boy at my school who has epilepsy had an hour long 'sleeping' style seizure today. Was only in the library as a group of them had been sent there while the rest of the class did a test. His arm was hanging over the chair's back and another boy alerted me to the fact that his hand was turning blue.
A teacher came and the integration aide who works with this boy in some classes was in her office off the library, they sat with him for the 40 minutes (20 minutes from when the other boy originally alerted me) His mother was called but said we had to wait for him to come out of it, then wait a bit. We got the wheelchair from the office and he went to the sick bay for a bit afterwards.
Then on the way home, my bus did a welcome part express run from the railway station halfway between home and the school's suburb, and the next suburb up the road. Have just had a much needed shoulders massage, hot shower and washed my hair, (ongoing cold weather here) and I feel so much better now.
And it seems that my (cheap) kettle may be in need of replacement - it was bubbling, and I was waiting for it to click off, when it just kept bubbling, and bubbling.....then I manually tried the switch and it didn't seem to move to the off position.....
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 13, 2024 17:24:36 GMT
A varied day, A bit of shopping, sitting in the garden to keep the dog happy whilst Texan s-in-l went to her craft club, peeling apples to make a dessert, reading the last of a borrowed book to return it on Sunday. I also got an e-mail from the lady who is organising the Doors Open Days opening of Horton Court this weekend apologising for missing me off the mailing list and asking if I can help out. So I've now got tomorrow organised as well.
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Post by jenny on Sept 13, 2024 20:16:30 GMT
Disappointing, a little, in that I intended to go swimming but when I turned up at the pool I discovered that it was closed because of firefighter training.
However, I made a couple of delicious soups, one of which we ate for lunch, and we are about to go out to the opening of an exhibition at an art gallery where a friend of mine is showing her work, and then we're going out to eat.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 13, 2024 20:21:41 GMT
I don't know if it's something to do with the grot, but I'm bloody starving!
I had the usual porridge for breakfast, two large baked potatoes at lunchtime, and I've just eaten two bowls of cereal, but I'm still hungry.
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Post by emily on Sept 13, 2024 21:44:26 GMT
I feel like I'm struggling with confusion on and off today
People have let me know that I'm miss remembering stuff
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Post by pinklady on Sept 13, 2024 22:07:07 GMT
A varied day, A bit of shopping, sitting in the garden to keep the dog happy whilst Texan s-in-l went to her craft club, peeling apples to make a dessert, reading the last of a borrowed book to return it on Sunday. I also got an e-mail from the lady who is organising the Doors Open Days opening of Horton Court this weekend apologising for missing me off the mailing list and asking if I can help out. So I've now got tomorrow organised as well. Ooh, I love Horton Court! I hope you get lots of visitors. The sun is supposed to shine our way so that might help. Heritage Open Days is such a brilliant initiative, and often gives a chance to see inside places which just aren’t otherwise accessible. I urge everyone to go and see something which is open this weekend!
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Post by amanda on Sept 13, 2024 22:59:56 GMT
Melbourne, Australia has a similar thing, called Open House on the last weekend of July. In the middle of our winter so it can be (as it was this year) cold and/or wet, don't know why that time was chosen but there are several places open that are not usually open or even those that are like the city churches, have members available for extra information, if not an official tour.
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Post by alexanderhoward on Sept 14, 2024 11:03:57 GMT
Friday - Coriolanus at the National Theatre (the ugliest building in the world - but great theatre). Excellent production, and the lead really inhabited the role.
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Post by RLDavies on Sept 14, 2024 15:28:14 GMT
Work Work Work Work Work
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 14, 2024 16:19:42 GMT
A beautifully sunny day at Horton Court. Loads of visitors enjoying taking in a place that's got the oldest occupied roofed building in the hands of the NT (a Norman hall dating to 1185), whilst being a well-appointed holiday let that sleeps 10 in great style. One visitor was impressed enough that he's going to look up the booking details when he gets home. The dates have already been reserved for 2025 and 2026. Hope I'm around to do them.
The place I'd like to get to is the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution. They have 4 of the Casali ceiling paintings removed from Fonthill Splendens when it was demolished and Dyrham Park has 5, with 2 more at the Holburne Museum in Bath. Someone was doing a talk there on them all in connection with the Open Days, but it was on Thursday when I was volunteering at Dyrham!
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